Capo 1

[C]Flyin high on a black[F]top sky
[G]moon shining on the desert tonight
[C]500 miles down the [F] pan american
[G]highway

[C]Leavin Texas bro[F]ke my heart
[G]but I'm off to a [C] brand new start
[F]they'll be wonderin where I am by
[G]Friday

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[F]I'm checkin out of that [C] same old grind
nothin but blue skies [F] on my mind
back home I [C] know they'll say
we [F] told him not to go but he [G] went anyway

chorus
And he [C] never came back from [F] Mexico
and [G] what he's doin now nobody [C] knows
he [F] left here a long time ago 
and he [G] never came back

[C]Takin on a gol[F]den glow
[G]on the seashores of Manzanillo
[C]chasin the wind where the sea [F]
meets the Sierra [G] Madre

[C]She runs barefoot i[F]n my dreams
[G]a Spanish angel in [C]faded blue jeans
[F]something in her eyes seems to whisper
[G]follow me

pre-chorus
[F]I'm givin up on that [C] 9 to 5
its time I start livin my [F] own damn life
back home I [C] know they'll say
we [F] told him not to go but he [G] went anyway

chorus

bridge
[Bb]I'll be drinkin that cuer[F]vo gold
[G]I'm gettin young before I get old
[Bb]they'll say he's in [F]trouble somewhere
hell he [G]must have gone crazy down there

chorus
Well he never came back
he left here a long long time ago
and he never came back from old mexico
no he never came back from mexico
no he never came back from mexico

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